11 Mar
2017
11 Mar
'17
4:26 a.m.
The company I was at was one of the early resellers of
the Trailblazer. =
I have fond memories of hauling one out for an on-site demo for a =
company running some flavour of 3B2. We hooked it up to a serial port, =
cu-ed out to our office server, and then I did a simple cat of a large =
text file to show off the throughput.
Anyone remember using cu ~%put / ~%take commands to transfer files across
dial-up lines on systems that didn't speak uucp? No error correction,
just blast those bytes. Binary files through an acoustic coupler modem
were always a particularly tricky proposition. Fun times.
--corey